is actually to set the framework so we can begin the processes in the committees to get to writing the bill. that s what the first vote on the 3.5 budget will be, a start to the process and then go to the committees and get the details worked out. just typically if you put a date for something and something has to be done this is there to light a fire you know where to get this thing done. if you said, oh, this procedure vote is another week or two weeks away, it would stall and slowly roll out. is that what it s about? get this done. i think that s right. the president and senate leader schumer are really looking at the calendar and want to get the infrastructure bill done in a timely manner. we in the house stand ready to get to work. we re coming back on monday. i think it s about making sure
mitch mcconnell is now blocking an investigation into what happened to brian sicknick when he engaged to hand-to-hand combat january 6th and suffered two strokes and died the next day. mitch mcconnell plans to use a procedure vote in the senate to block a bipartisan january 6th investigation commission. officer sicknick s mother gladys sicknick sent a statement in mitch mcconnell and every mefb member to meet with her and explain their position. in her statement to republican senators, gladys sicknick said her son died because of the insurrection who stormed the building on january 6th. gladys sicknick said her son fought for hours and hours against the animals who tried to take over the capitol building and our democracy as we know it. not having a january 6th commission to not look exactly
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this unified. i m at the highest level i have ever been at, but the republicans have never been this unified and this whole impeachment scam, that s exactly what it is, it s a scam. all right. so we heard from kevin and who he has spoken with as well. susan, what s your assessment, have republicans never been this unified? not exactly. especially if you listen to them behind closed doors. i mean, the fact is that the republicans for right now it was not a bipartisan vote in the sense of no republican voted for the impeachment inquiry in the house, but there was no reason to on a procedure vote to just get beaten up for a month or six weeks by the president. let s see what happens, again, the case has to fold out. the president can say whatever he wants, it does not make it true. he calls lieutenant colonel a never trumper. that means in trump s mind you just don t agree with trump and if you don t agree with trump you are human scum. so, you know, i don t mind being
trump administration from dropping the sanctions on dara past k deripaska right now and he did it. he got 11 republican senators of all different ideological stripes to vote to keep the sanctions in place. this was a procedure vote today. we ll talk with chuck schumer but the vote was 57-42. it would have been 58-42 had she not been on the colbert report. she ll be back tomorrow and cast the vote with the rest of the democrats and those at least break away 11 republican senators.away 11 republican senators. last night we talked about the sanctions thing as a test vote for the country, a test vote for whether or not elected republicans might have some hidden depths. they might feel some compunction when it comes to this president